Ebooks Free Download | The Secret Pilgrim | The infamous Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989, and the thirty year long undeclared cold war declared at an end. A year later, in 1990, "The Secret Pilgrim," British spy master John Le Carre's thirteenth book, was published. LeCarre, with his first-hand spy experience, had penned the cold war masterpieces "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," and the Smiley-Karla trilogy "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Honourable Schoolboy," and "Smileys People;" he used this book, basically a collection of short stories that opens as the Berlin Wall has been up only two years, to look back. It was his first published post-cold war novel, and a magisterial summing-up of the secret war that was.
Le Carre, had been, of course, an actual British spy, for five years, under his birth name, David Cornwell. According to internet biographers, he was, in fact, embedded in Soviet territory when he was blown by Kim Philby, most celebrated of real-life British secret-service traitors. Being unmasked was not fatal to Le Carre, as it had been to others, but it was certainly fatal to his ability to work in the field. The author sets much of "The Secret Pilgrim," as is his custom, in his German-speaking comfort zone. Particularly in Berlin, "the spy's eternal city," he calls it. He uses as his narrator "Ned," a shrewd, loyal, long-term employee of Le Carre's fictional intelligence service, modeled on the real one. Here, as elsewhere in his writings, the writer calls this service the circus, from its London digs. Ned is currently teaching new recruits at Sarratt, its spy school, on his way to retirement; he's thinking about the secret pilgrimage of his life, spent in the service, wondering whether it's done him, or the world, any good. He invites George Smiley, the heart of the circus, to speak to his students.
Le Carre, had been, of course, an actual British spy, for five years, under his birth name, David Cornwell. According to internet biographers, he was, in fact, embedded in Soviet territory when he was blown by Kim Philby, most celebrated of real-life British secret-service traitors. Being unmasked was not fatal to Le Carre, as it had been to others, but it was certainly fatal to his ability to work in the field. The author sets much of "The Secret Pilgrim," as is his custom, in his German-speaking comfort zone. Particularly in Berlin, "the spy's eternal city," he calls it. He uses as his narrator "Ned," a shrewd, loyal, long-term employee of Le Carre's fictional intelligence service, modeled on the real one. Here, as elsewhere in his writings, the writer calls this service the circus, from its London digs. Ned is currently teaching new recruits at Sarratt, its spy school, on his way to retirement; he's thinking about the secret pilgrimage of his life, spent in the service, wondering whether it's done him, or the world, any good. He invites George Smiley, the heart of the circus, to speak to his students.
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